<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Ruud,<br><br></div> Yes, I ended up having to publish on Vixra, since Arxiv.org wouldn't publish my straight forward paper. Apparently, submissions to Vixra are now way up, because publishing on Arxix.org is becoming so difficult for independents. I actually was thinking that if you try to publish on Arxiv.org without an academic affiliation ( and without a previous history there), that you may get blocked automatically. <br><br></div>Doug<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Ruud Loeffen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmmloeffen@gmail.com" target="_blank">rmmloeffen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>To Ilja and Doug and others.</div><div><br></div>Yes: it's clear that "classical" scientist don't want new or innovative ideas to supersede the mainstream sciences. Some scientists like Halton Arp were refused to use the observational tools: <span lang="EN-US">“ </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/science/space/halton-c-arp-astronomer-who-challenged-big-bang-theory-dies-at-86.html?_r=1" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">As Dr. Arp’s colleagues lost patience</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> <i>with his quest, he was no longer invited to speak
at major conferences, and his observing time on the mighty 200-inch telescope
began to dry up. Warned in the early 1980s that his research program was
unproductive, he refused to change course. Finally, he refused to submit a
proposal at all on the grounds that everyone knew what he was doing. </i></span><i>He
got no time at all.” </i><div>Than he was engaged in the Planck institute<i>. </i>Also Julian Schwinger was not appreciated: <i style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,times,"times new roman",serif;font-size:15px">[Q] But you must have admired his elegance as a physicist?</i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,times,"times new roman",serif;font-size:15px">Murray: No. I despised it </i>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmi1MhRfoWU" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=cmi1MhRfoWU</a> <p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p>Physicist seem to be quite human...</div><div><br><div>I don't know if you know <a href="http://vixra.org" target="_blank">vixra.org</a> (the reverse of arxiv!) They offer especially place to people who are refused on <a href="http://arxiv.org" target="_blank">arxiv.org</a> </div><div>I read a warning on a physicsforum: "don't publish on vixra if you want to be taken seriously".😖 </div><div><br></div><div>So I think it's very good to exchange our ideas and perhaps we can be stronger together. Perhaps there are some tools available to be shared (no accelerator....)</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards.</div><div>Ruud Loeffen.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Ilja Schmelzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ilja.schmelzer@googlemail.com" target="_blank">ilja.schmelzer@googlemail.com</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I personally see no chance for experiments. Simply because in the<br>
particle physics domain you can do nothing without particle<br>
accelerators, and in gravity nothing without the big observational<br>
tools used in modern astronomy. The time of experiments done at home<br>
is over. One or another accidental thing may happen, like cold fusion<br>
or so. But I doubt experiments from outsiders can give more.<br>
<br>
I have encountered problems with <a href="http://arxiv.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">arxiv.org</a> too.<br>
<br>
First they have tried to reject a paper which was a combination of an<br>
old one with some new results. Too close to each other, so this can<br>
be only one arxiv paper - despite completely different publications,<br>
where the second one was made in full awareness of the publisher that<br>
some old content will be reused.<br>
<br>
Then they have simply rejected an ether paper which was an answer to a<br>
paper itself published there. The arguments for rejection have been<br>
completely off, I was able to reject them, but only to avoid worse<br>
things (like being allowed to publish there only already published<br>
papers) but the paper itself was nonetheless not published.<br>
<br>
So, <a href="http://arxiv.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">arxiv.org</a> is increasingly going insane in their censorship.<br>
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